Reading take large bite out of Wolves’ lead

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Wolverhampton Wanderers have led the Coca-Cola Championship for most of the season, including the past three months, but their advantage was cut to two points by Reading, their nearest rivals, at the Madejski Stadium last night. In a clash of the heavyweights that never really lived up to its billing, an own goal from Neill Collins, the Wolves central defender, after barely 60 seconds decided the issue.

Collins’s misery was compounded in stoppage time when he disputed the award of a corner to Reading and let one of the assistants of Russell Booth, the referee, know his feelings in no